EXCLUSIVE: Nigel Havers appeared in Downton Abbey in 2011.
Nigel Havers and Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes have identified one another for a very long time (Picture: Getty) This text incorporates affiliate hyperlinks, we are going to obtain a fee on any gross sales we generate from it. Be taught extra
Performing legend Nigel Havers has admitted he was very fallacious about acclaimed Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes’ profession prospects. Nigel, 74 and Julian, 76, have identified one another for many years, having begun their appearing careers collectively. Nonetheless he acknowledges he by no means thought he’d see the day he could be working for him. “After we all we had been all younger actors collectively, and we had been all mates, Julian would all the time be sitting on one other desk writing.
“We mentioned: ‘Julian, What are you doing?’ He mentioned: ‘I am writing’. Writing a play or writing a TV present. We mentioned: ‘Come and have a drink. You will by no means, ever get that off the bottom. You will by no means make it as a author. Come round right here, you are an actor’. Nicely, we bought that fallacious!” he exclaims. Julian launched Downton Abbey on ITV in September 2010 and it rapidly turned an enormous hit. A yr later, he employed Nigel casting him because the charming but conniving fortune hunter Lord Hepworth within the season two festive particular in 2011.
Downton is a quintessentially English present, and Nigel’s profession has been dominated enjoying British charmers and cads.
Whereas he has labored within the US now and again, he confesses he’s not a fan of the tradition on American units.
“I am not mad about working within the US,” he explains. “I discover the actors are very totally different. They do not share. They do not have as a lot enjoyable as they work together on the set.
“They sit individually. They do not discuss to one another, they’re guarded. They do not wish to run the strains, it’s very bizarre.
“In England, you may discover all of the actors across the desk telling tales. And if they are saying, we’re prepared for you now, I will say, ‘Excuse me, I am simply in the midst of a narrative. I will be with you in a minute’. That is the distinction between the 2.”
Nigel faces no such points on his present undertaking – a one-man present about his life and profession referred to as “Speaking B*******”.
Requested what can folks count on from it he self-deprecatingly answered: “Me.”
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Elaborating he mentioned: “I’m 74 and other people saved saying, ‘It’s essential to do your one man present’ and I believed, ‘No, no, I’m far too younger’.” He erupts into laughter. “Then I realised that I wasn’t.”
Nigel Havers Speaking B*ll**** runs nationwide all through 2026; go to ticketmaster.co.uk for dates and extra data
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